This is just an arbitrary question, but why don’t ...

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[nish]

This is just an arbitrary question, but why don’t long literals support lower case l? because it looks like floats do with f.

[Czar]

this was done on purpose, because in some alphabets l looks like 1. Yup, it's arguably wrong to use such alphabets for writing code, but here we are. Also many coding best practice guides and conventions demand use of upper case L in such circumstances, so Kotlin team decided to make it explicit.

[nfrankel]

thanks for the explanation
👍
i learned something today 😄

[nish]

Ah I see. Thanks for that 😄